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Landscape with Philemon and Baucis, from Large Landscapes
Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert (Dutch, active in Flanders, c. 1586–1659)LinkedCulture matchlcp-d7ba97789e06
- Date
- c. 1638
- Medium
- Engraving in black on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 223264
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Toward the end of his life, Peter Paul Rubens realized a series of six large landscape prints, all but one engraved by Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert. The genre of landscape painting had become especially important to Rubens in his final decade, when he purchased a country estate and retired from city and court life. Though artists more typically represent Philemon and Baucis, the modest and elderly couple from Ovid’s Metamorphosis , when they receive Jupiter and Mercury as dinner guests, here we see the destructive forces of nature at Jupiter’s command with the gods and their humble hosts ascending to a mountain top at the viewer’s left.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Anne-Marie Logan
- Provenance
- Mrs. R.-A. d’Hulst, Belgium. Sold by Jan de Maere, Brussels, to Anne-Marie Logan, Conn., May 1999; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
- 17th-century Northern European animal studies
A collection of prints and prints-based works from the Dutch, Flemish, and Northern European traditions of the 17th century depicting domestic animals and rural pastoral scenes, primarily created through etching and engr
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